22 Celebs You Didn't Know Worked At Fast Food Joints

There's a reason why we can't get enough of Us Weekly's "Stars—They're Just Like Us!" pics: It's nice to remind ourselves that celebs did not, in fact, wake up like this. Some of them started off just like us, flipping burgers or bagging fries. Here, 22 celebs whose first gigs were at a fast-food joint.

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Pink

If there was a celebrity-fast food hall of fame, this singer would be in it. She worked at three: McDonald's, Pizza Hut, and Wendy's (which lasted only an hour and a half because she refused to be on French fry duty). But she was far from Employee of the Month, admitting to the Associated Press that she smoked cigs at the drive-thru window, hooked up her friends with free fries, and dropped LSD on the job. "I'd be tripping on acid ...and I would say, 'Could I have bathroom duty?' And I would sit in the bathroom and watch the tiles."

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Eva Longoria

The Desperate Housewife spent her formative years working the counter at Wendy's in her hometown, Corpus Christy, Texas. She got the gig so she could pay for her own 15th birthday party and stayed on to become a manager at age 18.

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Chris Pratt

Okay, it's debatable whether or not everyone would consider Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. fast food, but we're gonna go with a yes. Earlier this year, Chris Pratt posted an Instagram from inside one of these restaurants recalling his time as a waiter there.

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Barack Obama

Long before becoming president, Obama was an ice cream scooper at Baskin-Robbins. The job taught him several things, he wrote for a LinkedIn essay. "Responsibility. Hard work. Balancing a job with friends, family and school."

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Lin-Manuel Miranda

The broadway and Mary Poppins star tweeted a picture of his McDonald's name tag, captioning it his "first job." As for the slash, turns out Mickey D's didn't have dashes at the time.

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Gwen Stefani

The Voice host got more than a paycheck at her high school job at Dairy Queen. She got bandmates, too, from fellow coworkers John Spence and her bro, Eric Stefani.

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Madonna

She hasn't always been so vogue: While the singer was struggling to get her start in New York City, she took a job at Dunkin' Donuts in Times Square, where she was canned after her first day for (wait for it) accidentally squirting jelly on a customer.

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Queen Latifah

The badass hip-hop pioneer had to work hard for her money—at Burger King.

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Jeff Bezos

Like most money-hungry teens, the Amazon CEO headed to McDonald's for a summer job, where he worked the grill and got stuck cleaning up a sh*tload of ketchup during his first week.

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Jennifer Hudson

As a 16-year-old, the Dreamgirls co-star landed a job at her local Burger King in Chicago, where she worked to her own tune, singing as she flipped burgers. In 2007, Burger King acknowledged Hudson's stardom by awarding her free BK for life. #winning.

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Bobby Flay

Fittingly, one of Bobby Flay's first jobs was in food. Like Obama, he worked at a Baskin-Robbins as a teen. In his 2004 book Boy Gets Grill he recalls getting a little crazy with the sundae toppings. Relatable!

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Julia Roberts

Yet another former Baskin-Robbins scooper: Julia Roberts! Baskin names Roberts, Obama, Taryn Manning, Eric Dane, Rosie O’Donnell, and Bobby Flay as some of their famous alums.

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Eva Mendes

The Cuban actress worked everyone's favorite mall lemonade stand, Hot Dog on a Stick, as a teen in Los Angeles.

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Amy Adams

The Sharp Objects actress told ET her first job out of high school was working as a Hooters hostess turned waitress. She called it a "great way to earn money for a car."

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James Franco

As a college dropout paying his way through acting school, Franco worked the McDonald's drive-thru as a way to earn cash—and also finesse his fake accents with customers. In a recent op-ed on WashingtonPost.com, Franco writes "McDonald's was there for me when no one else was." He still stops there for a burger once a year.

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Jay Leno

The now-retired Tonight Show host can partly thank his high school job for his fame: While working at McDonald's in Andover, Massachusetts, he won first prize in the Golden Arches' regional talent show for his comedy routine.

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Pharrell

The Voice judge worked at not one but three McDonald's—and got fired from not one but three McDonald's. "I was very lazy," Pharell admitted to Seth Meyers in April. While he was on mop duty, he'd act like it was a mic and belt "I'm a hustler, baby." Naturally.

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Rachel McAdams

Everyone's fave on-screen mean girl put in her time three summers in a row at her local McDonald's in Ontario. While she claims that she wasn't a great employee ("I broke the orange juice machine once a day," she tells Glamour), she also insists it was a way to pay the bills while she directed kid theatre.

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Megan Fox

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle star's teenage job was making smoothies—and occasionally dancing in the street in a banana costume to lure in customers—at Tropical Smoothie Café in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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Brad Pitt

Not all fast food gigs require taking people's orders and flipping patties. Brad Pitt's old job at El Poco Loco required a more...physical approach. The renowned actor used to dress up as a chicken and stand outside of the restaurant in order to entice people to come in! Talk about hard labor.

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Nicki Minaj

The eccentric rapper we have come to know and love wasn't always looked so highly upon. As a teenager, Minaj worked as a waitress at a Red Lobster chain. She was fired promptly after she followed a couple that took her pen into the parking lot and flipped them off! Not the best way to get tipped out.

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Jason Lee

Jason Lee is a professional actor, used to be a professional skateboarder, but you may not have known that he was also a professional fast food worker! He notes that if he ever runs out of work and needs a job, he could always hit up the Taco Bell in Huntington Beach, CA that he worked at when he was 16.

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